Barrow Media Center

Celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day with Us!

Poem in Your Pocket Day is a national celebration of poetry where everyone is encouraged to carry an original or a favorite poem in their pocket and share the poem with friends, family, and even strangers during the day. The official day is April 21 this year, but due to state testing we celebrate early and use this celebration to kickoff Poetry Month and National School Library Month.

On April 7th and 8th, every class in the school will come to the library for a special poetry cafe. We’ll have special seating, special lighting, an open microphone, and a poet’s stool. Students and teachers are welcome to come to the open microphone during their time slot and share poetry until time runs out. No one is forced to come to the microphone, but what we’ve found is that almost every students and teacher in the school shares a poem on this special day.

Family and community are welcome to attend in person, but we know that not everyone can join us in person. For the past several years, we have broadcast our poetry readings live and encouraged people to leave comments for the poets. Last year, we tried Google Hangouts for our event and encouraged people to tweet comments to our poets using a hashtag.

This year, we are once again broadcasting our poetry and we would love for it to be the best year yet. We would love for you to tune in to any of our poetry readings taking place throughout the day on April 7 and 8. You can even tune in late by watching the archives. Everything you need to know is housed on a special Smore page.

Everything you need to know about our event is here!

During the event, I will have a special “wall of social” displayed on our projection screen so that students can see any comments that you leave for them on social media such as Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to use the hashtag #barrowpoems so that we see your comments.

Happy Poetry Month and School Library Month! We hope to see you online!